Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least one high-ranking Roman Catholic priest seemed to agree. At a World Council reception in Geneva, he commented: "Let us all pray that God will give the Holy Father the strength to break through the opposition of the Curia. One must not forget that these cardinals in their ivory Vatican tower have never seen Protestants, and feel no need for contacts with something that to them does not exist. The Pope is a man of great experience. Let us hope he can make the weight of his enlightened judgment felt...
Barth's inquiring pastor had asked whether he should resort to prayer to ''pray away" East Germany's Communist government. Replied Barth: "Would you really take the responsibility of approaching the Lord with such a plea? Aren't you afraid that God might grant your request and that some morning you might wake up among those Egyptian fleshpots which symbolize the American way of life? We in the West have been struggling for many a year with the powers and demons that hover over the land of the 'economic miracle' [ meaning West Germany...
...chapel's congregation contains at least one representative of Protestantism. Catholicism, Judaism and Buddhism, and each will take turns giving Sunday sermons on his faith. The group at first regretted that they had no Moslem, but then decided that it was just as well, since Moslems ' pray at sundown and the Deep Freeze sun sets only once a year. "Now it can truly be said," reads the inscription on the chapel wall, "that the earth turns on a point of faith...
...Sixth Happiness [Dec. 22] was more jejune than usual. The sophomore-with-typewriter who pecked out this tirade quite evidently cannot distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality. The movie has more "treacle [than] the Great Boston Molasses Flood." Why not park your lad next to his cliché factory and pray for a small explosion...
...intoned the fortuneteller. "Now that the samurai's spirit has identified you with the neglect of his grave, you would be followed all over the world." He told Kawamura to clear away the earth and brambles from the tombstone, "then burn incense before it and pray. This will console the samurai...